Measuring Values of Extramarket Goods: Are Indirect Measures Biased? Author(s): Richard C. Bishop and Thomas A. Heberlein Reviewed work(s): Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 61, No. 5, Proceedings Issue (Dec., 1979), pp. 926-930 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/31803...

Bargaining, Strategic Reserves, and International Trade in Exhaustible Resources Author(s): Vincent P. Crawford, Joel Sobel and Ichiro Takahashi Reviewed work(s): Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 472-480 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1...

the most commonly used utility functional forms are reviewed and their properties compared. then, using data collected from west azarbaijan province, utility functions are estimated and absolute risk aversion coefficients measured. exponential and expopower utility functions classified all farmers as risk averse, but quadratic and cubic utility functions classified 75% and 65% of farmers as...

Agricultural research has transformed agriculture and in doing so contributed to the transformation of economies. Economic issues arise because agricultural research is subject to various market fail­ ures, because the resulting innovations and technological changes have important economic consequences for net income and its distri­ bution, and because the consequences are difficult to discern ...

A dynamic model of nematode populations under a crop rotation that includes both host and nonhost crops is developed and used to conceptualize the problem of economic control. The steady state of the dynamic system is used to devise an approximately optimal decision policy, which is then applied to cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii) control in a rotation of sugarbeet with nonhost crops. Long-...